CREATE PLACE Leadership Programme

‘I have since successfully secured Heritage Starter Fund through a brand-new CIC along with the opportunity to explore and deliver a brand-new event in my hometown – heritage based with strong place-making and community values and strong potential to create jobs and strengthen the local economy’.

‘I got to understand how a wide range of organisations work like Arts & Heritage, Historic England and how to lead those orgs/what the challenges might be’.

‘Have successfully secured Heritage Starter Fund through a brand-new CIC along with the opportunity to explore and deliver a brand new event in my home town – heritage based with strong placemaking and community values and strong potential to create jobs and strengthen the local economy. Also, new confidence in my own role, skills and talents which is pro-actively, through better conversations and engagement, delivering better and more effective partnerships and relationships with co-production partners and potential clients’.

‘Generally, I’m really pleased I attended the programme. It has strengthened our credibility in being recognised as an organisation supporting cultural development and placemaking leadership, and will open new opportunities for paid work and funding in the arts/heritage field’.

Coaching

 ‘Overall, really useful. Learned what coaching was. It was insightful to realise you do not have to fix things for people and have all the answers. I felt overwhelming to think you had to have all the solutions, whereas I have learned this is not what coaching offers’.

‘Such value in small conversations and this has given me the confidence to push back in my work setting, where growing online numbers has become a real focus, but actually small, intimate and deep conversations have real strength’.

 ‘I found the day insightful. Conversation is a skill. As a leader I now recognise how powerful the skill of conversation can be’.

 ‘All useful. Helps to contextualise it and face that you’ve perhaps been thinking of coaching in the wrong light before. I’m thinking about how to apply to other settings too’.

 ‘I recognise how this can change the way some of the meetings are run in the organisation. Also, I don’t need to have the same role as everyone else and do not have to solve everyone else’s problems or be all over their contexts’.

 ‘Useful to practise from both points of view. As a leader there are lots of benefits to being coached and being a coachee. Able to reflect on it from both angles is really useful’.

 ‘Really great to see and hear different techniques and think about how to use them in different contexts. Good seeing which one is useful and a good starting point for me which I can use from the beginning’.